Seasonal Grounds Maintenance Operative

Bath River Line; Bath; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking seasonal grounds maintenance operatives to join their dedicated team. This role involves various outdoor tasks such as planting, pruning, and maintaining green spaces, ensuring that the community's parks and gardens look their best. Ideal candidates will be physically fit and ready to work in all weather conditions, contributing to a clean and vibrant environment. With the potential for permanent positions, this opportunity offers a chance to make a real difference in the community while enjoying the outdoors. Join a passionate team and help maintain the beauty of local green spaces!

Benefits

Weekend enhancements

Bank Holiday enhancements

Qualifications

• Ability to work outdoors in various weather conditions.
• Experience in grounds maintenance tasks like planting and pruning.

Responsibilities

• Assist team leader in daily operations and team development.
• Perform grounds maintenance tasks including planting, pruning, and litter picking.

Skills

Physically fit

Outdoor work

Tools

Electronic mobile devices

Job description

Join to apply for the Seasonal Grounds Maintenance Operative role at Bath & North East Somerset Council.

Contract Type: Agency/Temporary (with potential for permanent if there are vacancies).

This opportunity is for seasonal grounds staff. The work is generally from March to October and is weather dependent, so could be for a shorter or longer period.

We are proud of the in-house services that we operate in keeping our neighbourhoods clean and our green spaces looking great. Our Environmental Services team works hard collecting recyclables & rubbish, cleaning our streets; they also tend to our beautiful parks, open spaces and our cemeteries and crematorium.

If you'd like to join our passionate, enthusiastic team, we'd love to hear from you. It's part of the job description that you're physically fit and prepared to work outdoors in all weather.

Based at Royal Victoria Park Bath, Station Road Keynsham or Radstock Road depot.

Enhancements are paid for weekend and Bank Holiday working.

The primary purpose of this post is to assist the team leader with the day-to-day running and development of the team in accordance with the Council’s Vision and Values, policy, and other objectives, to achieve maximum effectiveness and efficiency.

Key Duties

1. Planting, pruning, seeding
2. Hedge trimming
3. Grass cutting parks, open spaces & verges
4. Strimming, leaf blowing, raking
5. Setting out and marking sports areas
6. Upkeep of pitches (artificial and natural)
7. Propagation and nursery care of plants
8. Site preparation
9. Manual litter picking and sweeping
10. Emptying litter & recycling bins, and replacing liners
11. Using electronic mobile devices to record work & log any issues
12. Resolving any complaints as directed by managers

We offer both temporary and seasonal roles, and if there is a permanent role, we think you would be suitable for, we'd be happy to discuss this with you.

Please Contact:

Simple Recruitment
Chanel House, South Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, BA3 2EZ
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Matching Staff Solutions
Middle Pit House, Coomb End, Radstock, BA3 3AT
Tel: [phone]

CORR RECRUITMENT
Bristol, 22 The Courtyard, Bradley Stoke, Bristol, BS32 4NH
Tel: [phone]

Cucumber Recruitment
Kimada House, Urmston, Manchester, M41 6QT

Interested to find out more?
If you are interested in this position and would like more details, please contact Colin Hall on 07977 228445.

This is a rolling advert; applications will be checked weekly and we will shortlist and interview on a rolling basis.

About Bath & North East Somerset Council

Working at Bath & North East Somerset provides an opportunity to contribute to your community and make a positive impact on the lives of residents. Our values shape how we work to deliver public services, and how we communicate with the residents we serve. We care about the best outcomes for local people, through our public services.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.

We are a Disability Confident Employer. We are unable to sponsor candidates for this role under the Home Office Tier 2 points-based system (skilled worker route), therefore you must be able to obtain and provide your own right to work in the UK. Please refer to the Home Office Right to Work Checklist which provides details of which documents are acceptable. Should you be shortlisted you will be asked to bring your right to work documents with you to your interview so they can be copied and verified at that stage.